LAKE ELSINORE â" It wasnât a stellar outing statistically, but Zack Greinke feels healthy and thatâs all that matters.

Greinke, the Los Angeles Dodgers star pitcher, made a rehab start for the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes against the Lake Elsinore Storm on Friday evening and went 41/3 innings in his first action in almost a month.

âI felt pretty good,â Greinke said. âI executed most pitches, not quite as I had hoped but close to it. I thought the first inning was bad, but besides that it was pretty good from there on out.â

He allowed six hits and eight runs, three earned, didnât walk anyone and struck out four. He threw 80 pitches, 53 for strikes and was pulled in the fifth with two runners on base. The Quakes committed three errors behind him.

Greinke suffered a broken left collarbone in a brawl on April 11 when San Diego Padres outfielder Carlos Quentin charged the mound after Greinke hit him with a pitch. Before the injury, Greinke was 1-0 with a 1.59 ERA in his first two starts with the Dodgers after signing a $147 million contract in the offseason.

âMy collarbone feels good. Itâs just about getting my arm ready,â he said. âI feel like I can do just about anything other than run into people or a wall, and they told me not to dive.

âI wanted to execute pitches good, and it wasnât great by any means, but I guess it was pretty good for not pitching in three weeks.â

Storm catcher Robert Kral hit the Dodgers ace hard, belting a double high off the wall in right field in his first at-bat, launching a two-run homer in his second at-bat and adding another RBI double off the wall in his third at-bat, which ended Greinkeâs night. Right fielder Yeison Asencio singled in both of his at-bats against Greinke as well.

Greinke said he expects to pitch Wednesday, but he wasnât sure if that would be with the Dodgers or in another rehab start.

âIâm not going to be in midseason form but I feel like Iâll be able to get guys out (back in the majors),â Greinke said.

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